Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Special Topics
Why we can’t wait until 2014
This study analyzes data from the RAND Corporation’s Health and Retirement Study conducted from years 1992 through 2006. The authors sought to compare their data with the claims of other researchers which estimated that anywhere from between 50-62 percent of Continue Reading …
The Big Apple’s fight over calorie content
The New York City Health Department sought to address the obesity epidemic by requiring certain restaurants to publicize nutritional information. The federal Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989 mandated the inclusion of nutritional information on all packaged foods, but Continue Reading …
The Future of Medicine
Primary care physicians – general internists, family practitioners, general pediatricians – are on the verge of extinction. With pressures pushing young physicians toward specialization, a primary care crisis looms. Other workforce shortages, in general surgery and nursing, are also on Continue Reading …
Death Panels…Really?
Researchers studied the effects of palliative care consultation on the costs of care for patients. They conclude that palliative care consultation saves about $279 per day for a patient who survives their illness and about $374 per day for a Continue Reading …
A Classic: The RAND Health Insurance Experiment
We would be remiss In our discussion of the health insurance marketplace if we did not include one of the best social experiments of all time, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. This often cited study, conducted from 1974 to 1977, Continue Reading …
You must be logged in to post a comment.